Our latest Docker webinar is part of a three session series that dives into Docker storage from outlining the basics, to considerations for planning and best practices. Our first session goes back to the basics to explain how images, storage and volumes work in Docker. There are two more sessions coming up about Docker Storage – register now to save your seat! • Docker Storage Considerations – October 13th at 10:00 am PDT • Persistent Storage, Data and Docker – October 27th at 10:00 PDT Our speaker from this session, Sr. Technical Marketing Engineer Mike Coleman takes on the questions from the webinar in this blog post:

When they start using Docker, people often ask: “How do I get inside my containers?” and people will tell them “Run an SSH server in your containers!” But, as you’ll discover in this post, you don’t need to run a SSHd daemon to get inside your containers. Well unless your container is an SSH server, of course! It’s tempting to run the SSH server, because it gives an easy way to “get inside” of the container. Virtually everybody in our craft used SSH at least once in their life. Most of us use it on a daily basis, and are familiar with public and private keys, password-less logins, key agents, and even sometimes port forwarding and other niceties. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that people would advise you to run SSH within your container. But you should think twice. Let’s Continue reading…